| Show PEN PICTURE OF EDWARD H HARRIMAN iAN EVEN years ago people were fusee asking Who is E II Harriman When it twos that he had hod secured d con can control S trot of the Union Pacific and the Oregon Short Line the railroad reporters of SnIt Luke ruses at a loss to know what I to write ratite about hits him In III their distress they appealed to high officials official of the company but very little sa rim tion Beyond the vague information that Ire he wall wad a Wall street man nobody here knew a thing about him Fifty nine ago ngo E 1 II Harriman born the son of a New Jersey minister in ill anything liar hut circum circumstances stances Unlike his bis rival George Jay Gould Harriman had no railroad king for a father to give him a start Today Coda his an operating system s stem o of miles of railways lIe Ile is dominant or potent it the of aunty thousands miles orate mure of s ill III every quieter quarter of the rite country fulfils he hC is tS fit at the held h ad of aE steam arcane steamship ship on oft the Atlantic and 1111 Pacific and influences great financial interests in the form fern of banks bank trust in industrial industrial telegraphs express companies street railways anti other enterprises 11 In the the of oC Harriman is chiefly identified with the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line Southern Pa O C It V N and month he added the Utah Light Railway company Thirty Chitty drays days ago he was reputed to have secured control of the Baltimore R Ohio and it ill is a 1 safe a to mal stake e that before George Ja fay completes the Pacific also atHo will hill have hav an to system Of o All this accomplished in 40 I As a in his hili teens tacos went leant to Lo New ctt as n 1 clerk derk fora for a Wall street br Becoming familiar with the thc intricacies of o and having bluing extraordinary abilities in that direction he became a 1 private banker Ile made many Ind aurl it il was to ll V H and Ind Nicholas Fish Kish that chat he first owed success It was in Ala 1887 that I first turreted the railroad field when Irish Fish a member of the thc New York exchange anti ami an of the Illinois was twos made president o of the I h C and Ir Harriman a 1 member of the board of oC director tors tor Is As vice president of t tc Illinois showed the stuff that was wag in him Remarkable development I followed his that tints to the present dray two tuo characteristics dominate character One is his The Cho other is Iris his st of perce tion seems to amount almost to a 1 intuition locked b by an entirely masculine power potter of I is today not only a 1 railroad but a 1 financier AI all hr is a lt In Ir Harriman attracted uy by inducing r who teho represented the Union Pacific Mr Gould who c controlled th the Union Pacific Mr Rockefeller who controlled the 11 K T I and Mr Irish Fish of the Illinois Centt ll to pl the Chicago te Alton under the flit community of Following this step Http was made the chairman of th the executive e board of the Pacific lost How he inter acquired the Overland when the mort age was ryas and aud how thu Oregon Short Line nud Ind O 0 It t N followed and Ind how he secured control of the Southern Pacific following the death of Collis p I is ig well trell known knowlI history Tit fhe Harr iman is from Ir m the worlds eye ee His lIis enemies ay any his genius consists con in daring pluck soul luck and a supply of are dark HIs Ilia friends acclaim him the greatest railroad of the twentieth anti and withal a 1 big d III and generous roan mon W e erD r t j 1 r rv rr I rD v r x 1 I r 1 91 T r c v rd r nr H r 11 w q L wt w u lr liP liPi e i r j f I II 1 1 m m 9 vi I y l o ref I roe y Y S I y v vW W d j 1 t t r J t b rl e J i L t t ri it ito r 1 N tt t I a t t r n J y o sH y 5 f r n h v a 4 t 4 tJ 4 t i lL i t riY tl L f V I r f iR i h t a avi t t tC r vi fi 3 t r r itt v i t 11 i 1 I If f 1 1 I I C f I t i Ii f t t fl I 1 i iI I 1 t l 1 I at t ts I I J JI s sr n nw r rt I t ii j r t y J f d tv t SJ t w l t l f 1 Y d 1 1 1 i s 17 e d A i 7 d Y a a 1 l L E i u to uc c t l M I II r f fi r 1 x w d I Y r i I d b l I II y 0 F 1 r 0 1 I 1 to I IiI l H 1 7 0 t l 5 1 w Q I I w n nII tw I IF FEET II l HANDSOME I STATION TO BE NEXT YEAR UN ON PRESENT SITE S I TB OF OREGON SI SHORT LINE DEPOT AND WHICH WILL l |
